On 1/4/06, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> Given the current one is a low spec pc and the freebsd IPSEC implementation
> seems to work better (considering resources) i want to replace linux with
> m0n0wall but i don't have the 64mb of required RAM and is near impossible to
> buy SIMMs this days, so i need to enable swap to avoid having lockups.
>

ebay.  should be able to find some for practically nothing.  Or ask
around, I'm sure some people have stacks of SIMMs laying around that
they'd give you.


> I've
> never touched FreeBSD before, but as it's unix i don't think it's
> "impossible" to enable SWAP for the soon to be m0n0wall box, anyone did it
> before?
>

It is impossible with m0n0wall, unless you want to do a whole lot of
hacking, because the file system isn't a normal FreeBSD hard drive
file system.  Because of the focus on embedded platforms and compact
flash, the system runs from RAM because the writes from a normal file
system (much less swap) would quickly kill a CF card.

-Chris